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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

Baron de Montesquieu

What cowardice it is to be dismayed by the happiness of others and devastated by there good fortune.
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Cowardice Envy Fortune
What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
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Depth Philosophical Public Speaking
[The Pope] will make the king believe that three are only one, that the bread he eats is not bread… and a thousand other things of the same kind.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Believe Kings Religion
Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.
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Inspire Men Mixtures
To succeed in the world we must look foolish but be wise.
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Looks Success Wise
The coffee is prepared in such a way that it makes those who drink it witty: at least there is not a single soul who, on quitting the house, does not believe himself four times wittier that when he entered it.
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Believe Coffee Witty
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
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Difficult People Since Thinking
Wonderful maxim: not to talk of things any more after they are done.
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Acceptance Done Wonderful
Laws undertake to punish only overt acts.
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Law Overt Punish Undertake
An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war.
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Empires Peace War
There is something in animals beside the power of motion. They are not machines; they feel.
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Animal Compassion Power
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.
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Description Paradise Sensible
Law should be like death, which spares no one.
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Law Spare
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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Another Doors Fortune Window
I never listen to calumnies, because if they are untrue I run the risk of being deceived, and if they be true, of hating persons not worth thinking about.
BARON DE MONTESQUIEU

Hate Running Thinking
It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
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Checks Power Should

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